CCleaner for Linux

[The Mad Rapper]

I thought I'd share this with you, it's the closest to CCleaner I have been able to find:

http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/

 

[BigglesPiP]

You don't need CCleaner in Linux.

There's virtually no C to Clean.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

You don't need CCleaner in Linux.

There's virtually no C to Clean.

Well, that might be the case if you were rolling a lot of your own stuff, being sure to keep only what you need, but in a big fat distro with all the bells and whistles like Ubuntu there's a lot of junk in there I'll probably never need. Localizations are a perfect example. I'm not going to start reading Esperanto any time soon, but some programs came with Esperanto translations. Strip it out!

I like the idea and think I'll give it a try on my disk-space-starved laptop. An extra 500 MiB would be a godsend.

 

[BigglesPiP]

Pfft, storage is cheap. Buy storage, go on, you know you want to.

(can you tell I work in storage).

 

[MikeHunt79]

I agree with Billy, it's pointless having stuff on a drive that isn't being used... I'll give this a whirl on xubuntu....

EDIT: No xubuntu package

 

[yashiro]

Install localepurge and run it. Job done.

 

[Napaim]

Generally keep my temp files in a temp dir which I rm every now and again, that said I compile most things from source.
That said I'd say the best way to save space is to go with xfce instead of kde/gnome!
Thanks for the link though

 

[BillytheImpaler]

EDIT: No xubuntu package

Why would you need a Xubuntu package? The Ubuntu one for your version number will work just fine.

For ****s and giggles I ran it on a well-used Ubuntu 8.10 installation and it gave me 275 MiB. Not bad.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

I installed it to securely overwrite internet history, which could not be achieved any other way that I am aware of, other than creating a file the same size as the remaining unallocated disk space and then using shredder to nuke it. Far better to be able to identify only those relevant files and overwrite those ne c'est pas?

 

[BigglesPiP]

Well I tried it, it took about 300MB of language packs off my EEE (Debian 5.0).

All the other options were either stuff I want to keep, or there was nothing to remove. Seems I keep a lean machine.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

I agree with Billy, it's pointless having stuff on a drive that isn't being used... I'll give this a whirl on xubuntu....

EDIT: No xubuntu package

Use the standard Ubuntu package that your version of Xubuntu relates to, it works perfectly. Remember, the only difference is the WM.